Tripitena's Speech chords by Lou Reed

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Verse 1
My love
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G 
F 
The king by any other name a pissoir
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Eb 
You, my love tower over them all
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F 
They are but vermin beneath your heels
G 
They are monkeys
Suit them, frame them to
your own vision
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G 
But do not let one false word
F 
Of mockery seep through
to your vast heart
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I have seen you from close and afar
and your worth
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Far exceeds your height, your
width
The depth of your sorrow
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D 
Oh willful outcast doth thou not see
the light of our love
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Our linked fortunes
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Our hearts melded together
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F 
G 
Into one fine golden braided
finery
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They listen to the music of idi
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ots and amuse themselves
F 
With the sordid Miseries
of their businesses
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They are not the things
of angels
Nor of any higher outpost that humanity
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D 
might aspire  to
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G 
Your loathsome vomitous
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G 
Businessman king is of the lowest order
His advisors
Crumbling mockeries of education
Eb 
G 
driven by  av arice
Em 
My love
F 
G 
Dress them in the suits of mockery
And in their advanced
state of stupidity
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And senility
Burn and destroy them so their ashes
might join the compost
Which they so much deserve
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G 
If justice on this earth be fleeting
F 
Let us for once hear the weeping
And the braying
of the businessman king
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Let them be the the orangutans they are
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And set them blazing from the chandelier
G 
for all to see
F 
Hanging from the ceiling by
Em 
their ridiculous chains
And petticoats which you will
F 
have them wear
Eb 
Under the guise of costumic buffoonery
F 
He who underestimates
In time is bound to find the truth sublime
Eb 
And hollow lie upon the grates of
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sys temic disorder
Em 
Businessmen
You're not worth shitting on